African Digital Humanities

University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa

Awarded $1,730,000 in December 2017
to strengthen digital scholarly publishing, collaboration, and preservation as well as open access publication, the global visibility of African research, and the diversity of the humanist canon through bringing together researchers and specialists across South African universities, and drawing on existing relationships with leading international digital humanities centers, archives, aggregators, and indexes

Oceanic Humanities for the Global South

University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa

Awarded $858,000 in December 2017
to establish oceanic humanities as a field in the global south, through research, graduate curriculum development and training, building global south research networks, and promoting public humanities activities and platforms